As the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the wave of Arab terror in Israel, Israel’s new Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon made his first official speech at the international forum.
Since Danon will only submit his credentials next week, Deputy Ambassador David Ruth sat in the seat for Israel.
“I wish that my first time speaking to you was on happier terms,” said Danon. “Yet the tide of terror washing over my country has compelled me to speak to you this morning.”
“Today, the Security Council convened yet another meeting with the title: the situation in the Middle East. We don’t need another general meeting about the situation in the Middle East. What we do need is for this council to convene a meeting on the dangerous incitement led by (Palestinian Authority) President (Mahmoud) Abbas.”
Danon noted that the PA did not respond to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement on Thursday inviting Abbas to return to peace talks, and quoted Abbas’s comments from last month in which he said “the Jews desecrate the Temple Mount with their filthy feet.”
“Israelis are being stabbed, bombed, run over and stoned, and yet this council remains silent. Just last night the holy site, the Tomb of Joseph, was set on fire by a mob of Palestinians,” he said.
Referring to the brutal stabbing in Jerusalem’s northeastern Pisgat Ze’ev last Monday, he asked, “why would a 13-year-old boy go on a stabbing spree and try to take another boy’s life?”
Answering his own question, the new ambassador noted that Palestinian Arab children turn on the TV and don’t see Barney or Donald Duck, instead seeing “murderers portrayed as heroes.”
Danon then presented a picture from Palestinian Arab schools teaching “how to stab a Jew,” replete with a diagram pointing out critical points to stab.
“I want to say to the international community and the Security Council, if you are serious about promoting peace…make a clear statement against the incitement that fuels terror, support direct negotiations, just as we did with Egypt, just as we did with Jordan, this is the only way,” concluded Danon.
Also speaking at the meeting was US Ambassador to the UN Samanatha Power, who condemned the violence in Israel on both sides, but clarified that Israel has the right to defend itself.
“The Palestinians have no hope, but that isn’t a reason for violence. The status quo is unstable, we must continue to advance the two state solution,” said Power.
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